I’ve been messing around with a new project and have been taking a different approach. Rather than doing a significant amount of writing up front, I’m doing some design work first. Sort of creating a pitch document with images, mood, texture, and bits and pieces of writing. The story is being translated in short summaries.
I’m hoping that by taking this macro-view approach seriously first, the rest of the project will be more structured to work through.
Today I was working on a poster. I had woke up in a funk and wanted something fun to work on. I tried a bunch of different designs but nothing was really hitting. I liked a lot of them, but I wasn’t jumping for joy.
I was getting worked up, more so than I already was, and then I realized that I was supposed to be doing this for fun. I also realized that all my adjustments weren’t exactly making the design better, each version was sidestepping rather than moving forward.
So I decided to call it a day.
I like what I got, here are some of the options.
It’s hard to tell yourself that you’re finished, but at some point you’ve got to. At some point the project just isn’t going to get any better and you’ve just got to let it go.